There are many reasons why Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night. As a survivor he wanted to tell others about the horrors of the holocaust. As a young child he watched his father beaten to death and others killed in the most horrific ways. Although it was painful thinking of the past he felt it was necessary for others to know. He also wanted to prevent something like that from happening again. He also wanted to write it because the dictionary had nothing in it about the holocaust. If he did not write this book more horrible things could have happened.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
1. Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 and died in 1945. Goebbels was Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda and one of the most important and influential people in Nazi, Germany. 2. They made sure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was bad or damaging to the Nazi Party, they also made sure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible, they burn books that did not say good thing about Nazis.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
1. It was anti Jewish riots against the Jewish community in Germany. The word means “the night of broken glash”. This happened November 9-10, 1938.
2. 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials attended, they gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
3. The Final Solution was that the Jews would be sent to labor camps in the east separated by gender.
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Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
1. -Roma (Gypsies)
-People with disabilities
-Poles
-Soviet Prisoners of War
-Afro-Germans
-Jehovah’s witnesses
-Homo Sexuals
2. A lot of the people in these groups got killed in the concentration/death camp.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
1. The three ghettos were closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The closed ghetto was in the parts of Poland and The Soviet Union that Germany has control over; they were closed in by walls and barbwire fences. Open Ghettos were in the same place as the closed Ghettos but they were also in Transnistia, there were no fences or barb wire but there were restrictions on leaving and entering. The destruction Ghettos were tightly sealed in place that existed for two to six weeks then German Soldiers would come and shoot the people; they existed in Lithuania and Ukraine. 2. They did not get a lot of food and there were very tight living conditions.
1. In labor camps you were going have to work and you weren’t really planned to die but you probably going to, in death camps you were going to get killed. 2. The living conditions were very uncomfortable. 3. They did to different kinds of killings shootings and gas poising.
1. The Soviets the U.S. and the British liberated the Camps. 2. He committed suicide near the end of the war. 3. 24 defendants were selected to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership. 4. They said that following orders was not a good defense.
Assignment 3: Images Of Night
Ghetto
Ghetto
Crowded and Hot
Burning, Heartbreaking, and mourning
Stuffed like teddy bears, and as hot as the sun
A small town made of legos
Crying
With lots of people
Table of Contents
Anthony S. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Reason for Writing
There are many reasons why Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night. As a survivor he wanted to tell others about the horrors of the holocaust. As a young child he watched his father beaten to death and others killed in the most horrific ways. Although it was painful thinking of the past he felt it was necessary for others to know. He also wanted to prevent something like that from happening again. He also wanted to write it because the dictionary had nothing in it about the holocaust. If he did not write this book more horrible things could have happened.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web SearchBackground Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
2. They made sure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was bad or damaging to the Nazi Party, they also made sure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible, they burn books that did not say good thing about Nazis.
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
3. The Final Solution was that the Jews would be sent to labor camps in the east separated by gender.
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Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
-People with disabilities
-Poles
-Soviet Prisoners of War
-Afro-Germans
-Jehovah’s witnesses
-Homo Sexuals
2. A lot of the people in these groups got killed in the concentration/death camp.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
2. They did not get a lot of food and there were very tight living conditions.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
2. The living conditions were very uncomfortable.
3. They did to different kinds of killings shootings and gas poising.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
2. He committed suicide near the end of the war.
3. 24 defendants were selected to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.
4. They said that following orders was not a good defense.
Assignment 3: Images Of Night
Ghetto
Ghetto
Crowded and Hot
Burning, Heartbreaking, and mourning
Stuffed like teddy bears, and as hot as the sun
A small town made of legos
Crying
With lots of people